ECRAwards2024

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Rag-and-bone science: interesting results from recycled data

I was surprised and thrilled to learn that I was a joint winner of Parasitology Journal’s Early Career Research Award 2024 for my paper “Revisiting fecal metatranscriptomics analyses of macaques with idiopathic chronic diarrhoea with a focus on trichomonad parasites”. This work arose from a need to find new ways of generating interesting results for my PhD thesis while I was unable to access the lab during the Covid-19 lockdowns. The idea was to leverage the vast wealth of next-generation sequencing datasets available in online databases to address new biological questions.

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Birds harbor more infections at higher latitudes

A host organism typically harbors more than one parasitic species in or on its body, a phenomenon known as a coinfection. This can lead to worse symptoms, if there are compounded impacts of multiple infections. Alternatively, disease outcomes may be ameliorated if the parasites are in competition with each other. Given the variable impacts of coinfection on host and parasites, it is important to understand the spatial distribution of coinfections and the underlying drivers of these patterns.

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